leaf-bearing

Updated: May 3, 2025

Occasionally, as in violet, a flower arises singly in the axil of an ordinary foliage-leaf; it is then termed axillary. Generally, however, the flower-bearing portion of the plant is sharply distinguished from the foliage leaf-bearing or vegetative portion, and forms a more or less elaborate branch-system in which the bracts are small and scale-like.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

That the action of the medium causes these and converse changes, cannot be doubted when we find, on the one hand, that "roots can become directly transformed into leaf-bearing shoots," and, on the other hand, that in some plants certain "apparent roots are only underground shoots," and that nevertheless "they are similar to true roots in function and in the formation of tissue, but have no root-cap, and, when they come to the light above ground, continue to grow in the manner of ordinary leaf-shoots."

Herbert Spencer - Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

Then it begins to realize certain relationships, and feels its vital connection with the twig and the few other leaves attached to the same twig. Later on, it unfolds sufficiently to perceive that certain other leaf-bearing twigs are connected with the same branch, and it learns to feel its relationship with all twigs and leaves springing from that branch.

William Walker Atkinson - A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

Special attention may be given to some points in the sculpture of these corbels, every one of which is worthy of careful study. In notice the figure of Ovin, previously named as the steward, bearing an official staff, or perhaps a sword. In the surrender of royal dignity is signified by the crown placed on the altar. In the leaf-bearing staff has an abundance of conventional foliage.

W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting - Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely: A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See

It is long, more or less thickened and here and there is a circular scar which marks the place from which former stems have arisen. When these leaf-bearing stems die down they leave on this rootstock down in the ground, a record of their having lived.

Frederick John Lazell - Some Spring Days in Iowa

When dry it is about the thickness of a thick knitting needle, swelling to the thickness of a quill when soaked in water. It is of uniform thickness, except near the leaf-bearing ends, which are thicker marked with numerous leafscars, or bare buds covered with scales, and often having attached the tattered remains of former leaves. B shows another piece enlarged to double linear size.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885